A bathroom sign showing men’s, women’s and gay restrooms at an Italian hotel sparked uproar in the nation recently rated 32 out of 49 countries for LGBT rights by Rainbow Europe. According to “Fatto Quotidiano,” an Italian dai… Read

When Google realized in 2013 it had a diversity problem, it followed the corporate playbook by introducing workshops to train employees about hidden biases. But four years later — and after sending three-quarters of its 70,000 employees through sensi… Read

Randy Gamel-Medler filed a federal discrimination lawsuit alleging that town officials in Hitchcock, Oklahoma, where he and his family resettled from Fort Worth, Texas, tried to drive him out of town and watched as his house burned down. Gamel-Medler… Read

Diageo, the global distributor of Bulleit Bourbon, has responded to accusations from Hollis Bulleit, the daughter of the whiskey company’s founder, who wrote a series of Facebook posts alleging that she was cut out of the family business becaus… Read

Hollis Bulleit, the lesbian daughter of Tom Bulleit, the founder of Bulleit Bourbon, says her family, the company, and its parent company Diageo have cut her and her partner Cher off from the family business and shunned them from family events becaus… Read

Once again showing his true anti-queer colors, the Trump Administration’s Department of Justice just filed a brief in an ongoing case at the Second Circuit Court of Appeals arguing that federal law permits employers to fire, deny promotion to,… Read

Reports are emerging that the Department of Justice under Attorney General Jeff Sessions will file a friend-of-the-court brief before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals that supports the view that Title VII doesn’t prohibit discrimination on the basis… Read

Rome (dpa) – A male couple was turned away from a holiday home in southern Italy because of the owner’s ‘no gays or animals’ admission policy, triggering Monday calls for tighter anti-discrimination rules in the hotel industry… Read

WASHINGTON — As the House of Representatives debated a proposal that would ban medical treatments for transgender individuals serving in the military, Republican Rep. Duncan Hunter of California had a brief message: “Choose what gender you are… Read

A pilot study by a think tank has found that gay men and transgender people face housing discrimination in metropolitan areas of the country. Findings of the study released Thursday indicate that in the early stages of the rental search process, hous… Read

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APPLE. Tim Cook tells employees the company is donating $2 million to fight hate groups: “Cook sent a memo to employees Wednesday pledging the donations to the Southern Poverty Law Center and the Anti-Defamation League. The Montgomery, Alabama… Read

A 25-year-old man has been jailed for knowingly passing on the HIV virus to two former lovers. Based in Nottingham, England, Antonio Reyes-Minana had unprotected sex with two other men separately in 2008 and 2012. The men later discovered their HIV s… Read

Michigan police are investigating a fire at the home of a prominent LGBT activist as a possible hate crime. Police had already confirmed that the fire at the Jackson City home of Nikki Joly and Chris Moore was being investigated as arson. Joly is dir… Read

On Twitter Thursday morning, Donald Trump lamented the removal of racist Confederate statues around the country: “Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments… Read

Following the recent publication of new photos of Vladimir Putin putting on an annual macho shirtless show in the Russian wilderness, Pavel Durov, the founder of the social networking sites VKontakte and Telegram, set up a challenge for his followers… Read

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Recently at a dinner party I attended there was a civilized debate about the famous monuments around the country glorifying the Confederacy and its leaders. A few people expressed concerned that moving monuments is rewriting history and a case of pol… Read

If you haven’t seen VICE’s documentary on the Charlottesville white supremacist rally, it’s really worth 20 minutes of your time. Among its subjects is Unite the Right’s Christopher Cantwell, the neo-Nazi seen crying in a vide… Read